Super-Intense Laser—Atom Physics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Silap III: An Overview

   1. Silap III: An Overview

      • Alfred Maquet

      Pages 1-5

3. Generation of High Harmonics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Recent Results in High-Order Harmonic Generation

      • Ph. Balcou, P. Salières, Anne L’Huillier

      Pages 9-17

   3. Angular Distributions of High-Order Harmonics

      • D. D. Meyerhofer, J. Peatross

      Pages 19-29

   4. Angularly Resolved Ultra High Harmonic Generation Experiments with Picosecond Laser Pulses

      • R. A. Smith, J. W. G. Tisch, M. Ciarrocca, S. Augst, M. H. R. Hutchinson

      Pages 31-41

   5. High-Order Sum and Difference-Frequency Generation in Helium

      • John K. Crane, Michael D. Perry

      Pages 43-52

   6. Contribution of Bound-Bound Transitions to High-Order Harmonic Generation

      • Luis Plaja, Luis Roso

      Pages 53-61

   7. Symmetry Breaking and the Control of Harmonics with Strong Short Laser Pulses

      • M. Yu. Ivanov, P. B. Corkum

      Pages 63-71

   8. Propagation of Intense Ultrashort Pulses and Harmonics in Gases

      • Keith Burnett, Stuart C. Rae

      Pages 73-82

   9. Multiple Harmonic Radiation from Metal Surfaces Induced by Strong Laser Pulses

      • Gy. Farkas

      Pages 83-92

4. Dynamics of Multiphoton Ionization of Atoms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Dynamics of Short-Pulse Excitation, Ionization and Harmonic Conversion

      • K. C. Kulander, K. J. Schafer, J. L. Krause

      Pages 95-110

   3. Atoms in Super-Intense Fields: Stabilization Ionization and High-Harmonic Emission

      • P. L. Knight, M. Protopapas, C. Keitel, S. Vivirito, K. Burnett, V. C. Reed et al.

      Pages 111-127

   4. Multiphoton Ionization of Atomic Hydrogen in Intense Laser Pulses: The Role of Rydberg States

      • D. Feldmann, H. Rottke, K. H. Welge, B. Wolff-Rottke

      Pages 129-144

   5. Structure in the Above Threshold Ionization (ATI) Spectrum Under Strong Femtosecond Pulses

      • W. Nicklich, H. Kumpfmüller, H. Walther, Huale Xu, X. Tang, P. Lambropoulos

      Pages 145-153

   6. Ionization in Strong Fields

      • P. Agostini, E. Mevel, P. Breger, A. Migus, L. F. DiMauro

      Pages 155-171

   7. Stabilization of Excited States and Harmonic Generation: Recent Theoretical Results in the Sturmian-Floquet Approach

      • R. M. Potvliege, Philip H. G. Smith

      Pages 173-184

   8. The Use of the Time Correlation Function in Floquet Theory

      • Thomas Millack

      Pages 185-194

   9. Some recent developments in multiphoton ionization of atoms in intense fields

      • M. Pont, A. Bugacov, S. R. Atlas

      Pages 195-212

The rapid development of powerful pulsed lasers is at the origin of a conside­ rable interest in studying the response of an atom, a molecule (or a solid) to a strong electromagnetic field. It is now possible to produce at the laboratory scale, ultra-short 13 pulses with a duration of 100 femtoseconds (10- second) and a power of the order 12 of 1 terawatt (10 Watt). Under these conditions, very high peak intensities may be obtained and electric fields exceeding typical electron binding fields in atoms are generated. The interaction of an atom or a molecule with such electromagnetic fields has a highly non-linear character which leads to unexpected phenomena. Amongst them, - above-threshold ionization (ATI) i.e. the absorption of additional photons in excess of the minimal number necessary to overcome the ionization potential and its molecular counterpart, above-threshold dissociation (ATD); - generation of very high harmonics of the driving field; - stabilization of one-electron systems in strong fields. These processes were the main topics of two international meetings which were held in 1989 and 1991 in the United States under the common name SILAP (Super-Intense Laser-Atom Physics).

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• Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  Bernard Piraux

• Service des Photons, Atomes et Molécules, Centre d’Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

  Anne L’Huillier

• Polish Academy of Sciences, Centrum Fizyki Teoretycznej, Warsaw, Poland

  Kazimierz Rzążewski

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